Michel Foucault on light
Michel Foucault46 quotes“Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.”
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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault Visibility is a trap.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault
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